For me, "timeline-based" public spaces like Nostr's Twitter clones have one use case only, that is mass dissemination of information (for example news, articles, opinion pieces, etc). The conversation mode they allow is simply an engagement method, like the comment section on a blog or newspaper website.
Community-seeking and building is better done in Reddit-like formats.
Then a lot of people are just looking for a good old open public chat, à la mIRC.
These are the three basic "social media" cases in my opinion, and I've said in the past here (not that you could know) that Nostr as a protocol perhaps can do them all, but definitely devs should focus on making apps that are good at one only, instead of trying to have their app do everything poorly, as we tend to see now.
(Additionally you have private messenger apps like 0xchat and, outside of Nostr, SimpleX, but I guess you were talking about public spaces).
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